The lethargic look (a look that some might refer to as "lizardly") on
Chelsea's face in the
first photo pretty well sums up the "peaceful, easy feeling" of life in
the South Pacific. This
is us on a boat ride to "Turtle Island", which was cool and depressing
at the same time.
And yes, the Eagles do suck, but I used the quote anyways.
I was particularly enamored with all of the Hindu statues, and took
lots of photos of them.
One interesting item that I did not know beforehand is that in
Hinduism, everything has a
soul or a spirit or whatever you want to call it; because of this,
you'll often see statues that
have been dressed in clothing as they don't want the spirits to appear
naked.
This joint is one of the most holy temples on the whole island, a water
temple known as Sebatu.
There is a natural spring here and the water is considered holy and
yadda yadda yadda it was
pretty damn beautiful but I had to wear a skirt to go in it. The
first three statue pictures are all
from this place.
I know it's hard to make out here, but this shot is from visiting the
rim of the volcano Mt. Batur.
It last erupted in the sixties if I recall correctly, and you could
still see the lava flow inside of the
crater. I think chelsea might have better pictures of this one,
I'll post some of those at a later
date once I get off my ass and actually load them on my computer.

The pictures I'm most
looking forward to seeing/posting I haven't developed yet as I need to
finish
off the roll of film, so a third installment will follow...soon
hopefully. Again, getting off of my ass will
be required, no small feat for me.

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I've religiously been
listening ot the Wolfmother
EP, this band of rockers from Australia who des-
perately need to both tour over here and put out more material.
Until someone yells at me, here is
the EP - don't be surprised if these lads get huge. The first
two tracks are pure Black Sabbath-meets-
Blue Cheer genius, the third track is what the White Stripes would
sound like if Jack had a bad ass
drum and bass combo behind him, and the final track is like Led Zepplin
for the oughts. Good god
I really love this.

***April
Nineteenth Two Thousand and Five***

Vacation Photos (part
one)

So we went to Bali a
little
less than a month ago, and these are a few pictures I took from
the trip.

During a day long tour we took as part of our package trip, our guide
took us on a tour
through an actual Balinese home. Rather than one large house with
multiple rooms,
they instead had a walled-in compound with many one-room
buildings...kitchen in this
building, bed in this other one, bathroom over in that one, etc.
These are some pic-
tures from within the compound.
The compound was full of animals...the first pic is porcupines, which
they eat over there;
the second pic is their chickens - cock fighting is still legal and
very popular in Bali; third
pic is some random caged dove-like bird; and the final pic was the
compound's cute kitty
kat, located here inside of the kitchen. Not pictured were the
pigs, the random chickens
wandering around, and the dogs. There were so many dogs wandering
around the island,
never chained, not a care in the world.
On that same tour we got to check out some terraced rice
patties...pretty rad. The foliage
on this island was so green and so dense, I felt as if I was on the set
of a Vietnam war movie.
I kept waiting for Robert Duvall to come flying by blasting "Ride of
the Valkyres" out of his heli-
coptor and then getting burned to death by napalm. Well, not
really.

Here's three songs I'm
really digging right now with minimal explanation, I'm feeling much too
lazy to think too much about this.

Jacques lu Cont
Featuring Cecile & General Degree - Na
Na Na Na...I don't know jack about
this, but if I was the dancing sort this seems like it would be a good
choice for that type of thing.Paul
Westerberg - As
Far as I Know...It's the friggin' singer of The Replacements and a
damn
catchy song, so there you go. He was great live a few months
back, as expected. Also, he
was drunk. TV on the Radio - New
Health Rock...You know how sometimes you hear a song and think it's
great and keep telling yourself you're going to get the album, but you
never end up buying it? I
still need to buy this record.

***April Eleventh
Two Thousand and Five***

Sweet mother of all that
is holey
(that includes doughnuts), my computer crapped out on
me while I was away on vacation. Now that I have it up and
running, back to the business
at hand - posting crappy photos! These are all super random.
Hopefully this weekend will
include some free time cause I have some vacation photos printed and I
really like some
of them actually.

Top row is the one and only Paul Shiek, bookmaker and skateboarder
extraordinare. The
first was taken ages ago at the Bezerkley park, the other two I took
outside of the Needles +
Pins store where he was having a book release this past winter.
Drew is the second row,
founding member of the GC and who has graced these pages many times.
These were taken
forever ago one day skating at Wallenberg with my pinhole.

A little more randomness...the first two shots are close-ups of some
sandstone formations at Pt.
Reyes, formed from the wind that is blowing there at all times.
The third photo was taken at some
abandoned military whatnot in the MArin Headlands. Finally, a
shot of the swimming hole on the
Yuba River where we always end up during visits to Nevada City in the
summer.

It must be said - I am
really bummed that Mitch Hedberg is dead, easily one of my favorite com-
edians. I lament never having seen him live, but at least he left
us with some albums and taped
performances to enjoy. Here is the audio from a Letterman
appearance, and it is damn funny.Mitch
Hedberg - Late Show with David Letterman